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English | 2024 | Original PDF | 52 MB | 721 Pages

Yehuda Shoenfeld, Ricard Cervera, Gerard Espinosa, M. Eric Gershwin, 3031698940, 3031698959, 9783031698941, 9783031698958, 978-3031698941, 978-3031698958

This  book contains the essential information required by physicians and  bench scientists to understand the definition of a given autoimmune  disease and its diagnostic criteria and treatment. Autoimmune diseases  are a family of more than one hundred chronic, and often disabling,  illnesses that develop when underlying defects in the immune system lead  the body to attack its own organs, tissues, and cells. In Autoimmune  Disease Diagnosis: Systemic and Organ-specific Diseases, the editors  have gathered a critical review by renowned experts of more than 120  autoimmune diseases. A contemporary overview of these conditions with  special emphasis on diagnosis is presented.

This edition of Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis is divided into two parts, the first covering systemic autoimmune  diseases, and the second covering organ-specific autoimmune diseases.  They cover all the newly approved classification criteria, such as those  for systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, several  systemic vasculitis, etc. This edition also reviews newly described  systemic autoimmune conditions: immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy,  VEXAS, immunoglobulin G4-associated autoimmune disease,  autoimmune/autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), and  autoimmune manifestations induced by immune-therapies. Several  organ-specific diseases have been added, including autoimmune alopecia  and other immune-mediated dermatosis, autoimmune encephalitis, and  autoimmune dysautonomia, among others. This is an essential guide to the  diagnosis of autoimmune diseases for internists, rheumatologists,  clinical immunologists, primary care physicians, and bench scientists.